Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora review: what a wonderful, yet generic, world

Beautiful vistas, cascading waterfalls, and extensively detailed terrain featuring every color of the rainbow – all of these things grab you by the eyeballs and pull you into the world of Pandora when you finally step out into the opening air following the game’s intro sequence. Much like the films, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is a sight to behold with so much care and attention put into every detail of the world. In a series that’s all about the wonders of nature and how it needs to be preserved, having a world as stunning as this is a big boon in getting that point across. It all plays into the great first impression that this game leaves. You start with a series of cutscenes detailing the human’s attempt to re-educate your small group of Na’vi to the human way of life – really pressing the point of “human equals bad” for anyone who hasn’t seen the films. Then it’s a quick yet tense escape sequence through the RDA facility leading into your first glimpse of the outside world. From there you start to integ